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SB 824 
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1909 njeCTICUT. LAWS 

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RELATING TO THE 

SUPPRESSION OF INSECT PESTS, PLANT 

DISEASES, AND CONTAGIOUS 

DISEASES OF BEES. 



Office of State Entomologist 




W. E. BRITTON, Ph.D. 

State Entomologist. 

Agricultural Experiment Station, 
New Haven, Conn. 



The General Insect Pest Law Provid- 
ing for Orchard and Nursery 
Inspection. 

Chapter 238 General Statutes of Connecticut. 

Section 4386. State entomologist ; appoint- 
ment. The board of control of the Connecticut 
Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven shall 
appoint a state entomologist to hold office during the 
pleasure of the board, who shall have an office at the 
experiment station, but shall receive no compensation 
other than his regular salary as a member of the station 
staff. He may appoint such number of deputies, not 
exceeding three, as he may deem necessary. 

Sec. 43S7. Duties. The state entomologist, 
either personally or through his deputies, shall visit 
any orchard, field, garden, nursery, or storehouse, on 
request of the owner, to advise treatment against pests. 
He may inspect any orchard, field or garden, in public 
or private grounds, which he may know or have reason 
to suspect to be infested with San Jose scale or any 
serious pests or infectious diseases, when in his 
judgment such pests or infectious diseases are a 
menace to adjoining owners ; and may order the 
owner, occupant, or person in charge thereof, 
in writing, to properly spray or give other suit- 
able treatment, or to cut and destroy any such 

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diseased trees or shrubs, if in the opinion of the 
state entomologist such action is necessary, and 
the owner thereof shall not recover from nor be 
recompensed therefor by the state. If the owner 
of such orchard, field, or garden neglects or re- 
fuses to comply with the order of the said state 
entomologist, he shall be fined not more than 
fifty dollars. The state entomologist may issue 
such bulletins of said experiment station as in his 
judgment are needed to convey information about 
pests; may conduct experiments and investigations re- 
garding injurious insects and the remedies for their at- 
tacks; diffuse such information by means of corres- 
pondence, lectures, and published matter; and may 
employ such assistants in his office, laboratory, or in 
the field, and purchase such apparatus and supplies as 
may be necessary. He shall keep a detailed account 
of expenses, and publish each year a report of such 
expenses, and of the work done. 

Sec. 4388. Certificate of inspection of nur- 
sery stock. All nursery stock shipped into this state 
from any other state, county, or province, shall bear 
on each package a certificate that the contents of said 
package have been inspected by a state or government 
officer and that said contents have been thoroughly 
fumigated and appear free from all dangerous insects 
or disease. In case nursery stock is brought within 
the state without such certificate, the consignee may 
return it to the consignor at the latter's expense, or 
may call the state entomologist to inspect the same and 
deduct the cost of such inspection from the consignor's 



bill for such stock. This section shall be deemed to 
be a part of every contract made in this state for the 
sale of nursery stock to be shipped into this state. 

Sec. 4389. Inspection of nurseries. Penalty. 
All nurseries or places where nursery stock is grown, 
sold, or offered for sale, shall be inspected at least once 
each year by the state entomologist or one of his depu- 
ties, and if no serious pests are found, a certificate to that 
effect may be given. If such pests are found, the owner 
shall take such measures to suppress the same as the 
state entomologist may prescribe. If such measures 
are not immediately taken by the owner of such nursery 
or place such certificate shall be withheld, and every 
nurseryman who does not hold such a certificate, after 
the first annual inspection, who shall sell or otherwise 
dispose of nursery stock, shall be fined not more than 
fifty dollars. The form of certificate and the season 
for inspecting nurseries may be determined by the state 
entomologist. The state entomologist or any of his 
deputies may at all times enter any public or private 
grounds in the performance of his duty. 

Sec. 4390. Appropriation. The sum of three 
thousand dollars is appropriated to carry out the pro- 
visions of Sections 4386, 4387, 4388, and 4389, which 
sum is to be paid quarterly to the treasurer of said 
station, who shall hold the same subject to the order 
of the state entomologist. 

Approved June 10, 1901. 

Amendments (See black-faced type in Sections 4387 
and 4388) approved May 11, 1903. 



An Act Concerning Gypsy and Brown- 
Tail Moths. 

Chapter 114 of Public Acts of 1907, page 666. 

Sec. 1. Public Nuisance. The insects common- 
ly known as the gypsy moth and the brown-tail moth, 
being serious pests of vegetation, are, in all stages of 
their development, hereby declared to be a public 
nuisance. 

Sec. 2. Authority. The state entomologist shall 
have authority to suppress and exterminate said gypsy 
and brown-tail moths, and may employ such assistants 
and laborers as he deems expedient; may cut and burn 
brush and worthless trees in fields, pastures, or wood- 
lands, or along the roadsides on any public or private 
grounds; and may prune, spray, scrape, or fill cavities 
in any fruit, shade, or forest trees, or clean up any 
rubbish for the purpose of furthering said work. The 
said state entomologist, or any of his assistants, depu- 
ties, agents, or employes, shall have the right, at all 
times, to enter any public or private grounds in the 
performance of their duties. 

Sec. 3. Living specimens must not be trans- 
ported. Penalty. Any person transporting living 
eggs, larvae, pupae, or adults of the gypsy or brown- 
tail moths into the state, or from an infested region 
within the state to a region not hitherto infested, shall 
be fined not more than one thousand dollars or im- 
prisoned not more than one year. 



Sec. 4. Wilful obstruction illegal. Penalty. 

Any person wilfully obstructing or hindering said state 
entomologist or his assistants or employes, in the 
work of suppressing said insects, shall be fined not less 
than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dollars. 

Sec. 5. Appropriation. The sum of one thous- 
and dollars is hereby appropriated to be paid out of 
any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
for the purposes of this act for the two fiscal years end- 
ing September 39, 1909 ; and the board of control is 
hereby authorized, if said board deem it advisable, to 
increase said appropriation to such amount not exceed- 
ing in the aggregate *the sum of ten thousand dollars 
as, in the opinion of said board of control and the 
state entomologist, is necessary, said sum to be in ad- 
dition to the total amount to which said board of con- 
trol is limited by law. 

Sec. 6. This act shall take effect from its passage, 
and the appropriation provided for in section five shall 
become immediately available for the purposes of this 
act. 

Approved June 5, 1907. 



An Act Concerning the Suppression of 
Contagious Diseases Among Bees. 

Chapter 185 Public Acts of 1909. 

Sec. 1. Duty of state entomologist to act on 
complaint. For the purpose of suppressing con- 
tagious or infectious diseases of the honey bee, it shall 
be the duty of the state entomologist, when complaint 
is duly made, to examine and verify, and treat or 
destroy cases of foul brood among honey bees. 

Sec. 2. Authority to appoint inspectors and 
to examine apiaries. In pursuance of the provisions 
of this act, the state entomologist or any person whom 
he may appoint for that purpose shall have access at 
reasonable times to such apiaries or places where bees 
are kept and where honeycomb and appliances are 
stored as may be designated in any such complaint. 

Sec. 3. Authority to make regulations. The 
state entomologist is authorized and empowered to pre- 
scribe suitable forms for and make regulations regard- 
ing such complaints, and shall keep the same on file 
and open to public inspection; and he is further au- 
thorized and empowered to make, in his discretion, 
reasonable rules to govern, and reasonable payments 
for the services of agents whom he may appoint to carry 
out the provisions of this act. 

Sec. 4. Obstruction illegal. Penalty. Any 
person who impedes, resists or hinders the state en- 
tomologist or any agent whom he may appoint in the 




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performance of the auucs n..^~__ r be 

fined not more than twenty-five dollars. 

Sec. 5. Provision for defraying expenses. 

To carry out the provisions of this act the necessary 
expenses, to an amount not exceeding five hundred 
dollars, shall be paid by the comptroller on duly 
accredited vouchers. 

Approved August 2, 1909. 



All inquiries about insect pests, applications for 
inspection of orchards and nurseries, and complaints 
regarding infested trees or apiaries should be made to 

W. E. Britton, State Entomologist, 

Agricultural Experiment Station, 

New Haven, Conn. 



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